Articles | Volume 19, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-3569-2026
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-3569-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
The ocean model for E3SM global applications: Omega version 0.1.0 – a new high-performance computing code for exascale architectures
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Xylar S. Asay-Davis
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Alice M. Barthel
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Carolyn Branecky Begeman
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Siddhartha Bishnu
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Steven R. Brus
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Philip W. Jones
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Hyun-Gyu Kang
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA
Youngsung Kim
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA
Azamat Mametjanov
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Brian J. O'Neill
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
James R. Overfelt
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87123, USA
Kieran K. Ringel
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM 87545, USA
Katherine M. Smith
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Sarat Sreepathi
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA
Luke P. Van Roekel
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Maciej Waruszewski
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87123, USA
Model code and software
E3SM-Project/Omega: Omega v0.1.0-alpha.1 Mark R. Petersen et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17418901
E3SM-Project/polaris: v0.7.0 Xylar Asay-Davis et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15470123
E3SM-Project/Omega Mark R. Petersen et al. https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20250723.1
Short summary
Ocean models are used to predict currents, temperature, and salinity of the earth's oceans, much like weather forecasting. As supercomputer hardware changes with evolving technology, models must be updated, and sometimes rewritten. Here we document Omega, a new ocean model that was designed to run on the world's fastest supercomputers. Testing shows that Omega accurately solves the model equations, and runs efficiently on many different computer architectures, including exascale computers.
Ocean models are used to predict currents, temperature, and salinity of the earth's oceans, much...